Lone Survivor

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It’s remarkable, given the honking great spoiler of a title, that Lone Survivor is as knuckle-chewingly tense as it is. A factually based action film that follows a doomed Navy Seal reconnaissance mission in Afghanistan, this is a fairly standard piece of macho patriotism, which is elevated considerably by its bruisingly authentic combat sequences. Director Peter Berg chucks his camera into the fray — we get a Seal’s-eye view that flings the audience into the heart of a firefight. It’s impossible not to flinch at the dull thud of bullets into flesh; equally hard not to wince when bones make crunching